To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Ori Tzvieli, Interim Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #23-679-2 with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Interim Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #23-679-2 with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $1,592,400, to provide a qualified person with an unrestricted California Physician license to act as the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Medical Director, for the period April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2028.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This contract will result in contractual service expenditures of up to $1,592,400 over a 3-year period and will be funded 100% Measure H Funding. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
Contractor will provide oversight of County's EMS agency including modification and development of treatment algorithms for first responder and transport agencies, emergency medical dispatch (EMD), EMS systems of care (stroke, stemi, trauma, cardiac arrest, children), and quality data systems and metrics. Contractor will also act as the liaison with trauma base station medical director and trauma program leads at the John Muir Medical Center Walnut Creek and provide quality review of case reports made to the EMS agency. County has been contracting with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. since April 1, 2020.
On March 29, 2022 the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #23-679 with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $750,000 to provide a qualified person with an unrestricted California Physician license to act as the EMS Assistant Medical Director to provide oversight of the EMS systems of care, EMS Quality Data Systems and Metrics and Emergency Medical Dispatch Unit as requested by the EMS Medical Director for the period April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2025.
Approval of Contract #23-679...
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